The World’s Greatest Jam Band?

Frell yeah — BaBa ZuLa

I was very excited to hear that filmmaker Adriana Cordeiro is working on a documentary on the band BaBa ZuLa. She has a Kickstarter page to finish the documentary and I made a pledge to help out and hope other will too. BaBa ZuLa is one of the most popular artists on my Internet radio station WorldFusionRadio.com and it is a band the world deserves to hear and see more about.

For most Westerners, especially English-speaking people, Turkey is a mysterious land. Few realize how dynamic and varied the Turkish music scene has been for a very long time. In particular, Turkey had a number of fab psychedelic rock artists in the 60s and 70s.

Enter BaBa ZuLa. Founded in Istanbul in 1996, they are one of those hard-playing, hard-working bands who live for music. Passionately Turkish in their devotion to their culture’s traditional music, BaBa ZuLa blends in a heady dose of late 60s psychedelic and early 70s prog-rock. They are, in my opinion, the world’s greatest jam band.

I only discovered BaBa ZuLa in 2014. How in the world I missed them for so long is beyond my comprehension. BaBa ZuLa is everything I search for and love about the music I play in WorldFusionRadio.com: roots in traditional music, embracing of new technologies, willingness to experiment, political awareness, and a…